Chinese culture has a history of 5,000 years, in such a long period of time, the development of Chinese civilization is not only the gradual growth of its own nation, and on this basis to establish a feudal dynasty for thousands of years, but also to a certain extent affect the culture of other countries, even today, Chinese culture also has a pivotal position in the world, such as the Japanese script is once imitated by Chinese characters to write.
In addition to Japan, there is another country that has also learned Chinese characters, and also as the common script of its own country, this country is now neighboring Vietnam, but later, because it was invaded by Western powers and became a colony, forced to abolish Chinese characters to learn Latin, since Vietnam abolished Chinese characters for more than 75 years, even Chunlian has been written in letters, but there is always a word that has not changed, so what is this word?
Emulate the culture and institutions of the continent
Before the establishment of the country, Vietnam has always been attached to the ancient feudal dynasty of the mainland, and this connection can be traced back to the pre-Qin period of the mainland, and this period vietnam is known as the State of South Vietnam, until the Ming Dynasty did not change its name, because the strength of the South Vietnamese state itself is weaker, the population of the country is relatively small, plus there has been no culture of its own, so when relying on the feudal dynasty of the mainland, basically copy the cultural and political system of the mainland. It was also on this basis that his own feudal kingdom was established.
And here to say, at this time, the South Vietnamese state does not have its own culture, because the establishment and development of a civilization is not so easy, many countries and regions in the world are following the civilization of some powerful countries in the past, only to establish their own culture on such a basis, the South Vietnamese country is also so, they not only learn Chinese characters, but also learn Chinese culture, that is, the ancient Four Books and Five Classics, and even they respect Confucius, even the imperial examination system they also copied, for these, The ancient dynasties of the mainland did not say anything, after all, as their vassal states, such a situation was often regarded as an honor by the rulers.
Until the tenth century AD, the State of South Vietnam itself developed and grew, and already had a very strong military strength, although it was inferior to the Central Plains Dynasty, but it was also very prominent compared with other small countries around it. At the same time, because the Central Plains Dynasty and the South Vietnamese Kingdom are far apart, so the scope and ability of control are extremely limited, which also led to the final Independence of the South Vietnamese State from the control of the Central Plains Dynasty, but don't look at the country began a new construction and development, but it is still developing on the basis of the culture of the mainland, even their history books are written in Chinese characters, I have to say that the influence of the mainland culture is very far-reaching.
Colonized and abolished Chinese characters
Although in the later South Vietnamese country has been using Chinese characters, but on the basis of this culture is not the same, because their daily spoken language and dialects of different regions and Chinese characters have a great difference, so later they processed and deformed Chinese characters, creating their own language and script, which is the later Vietnamese language, in fact, this so-called own script is to split the Chinese characters, some are removed from the side head, and some are divided into two, and even some are directly unchanged, without changing, But in any case, after all, it has its own national language, which is also conducive to the inheritance of its own national culture.
However, this situation has undergone tremendous changes in modern times, after the Industrial Revolution, the Western capitalist countries have unprecedented development, in order to open up the international market, increase the primitive accumulation of capital, some Western countries led by Britain and France began to invade some small countries in the Asian region, including Vietnam, Vietnam was invaded by France at that time, and developed into a colony belonging to France, the local French chief in order to assimilate this area, The Vietnamese were forced to abandon their own culture to learn French, which is why Chinese characters have been abolished to this day.
Under the pressure of the times, many Vietnamese people had to learn Latin and some French at that time, but in the last century, after continuous efforts and uprisings, the Vietnamese people took back the power and were no longer colonies of these Western powers, but the cultural influence left by some other Western countries such as France could not be eliminated in a short period of time, so that to this day, a large part of the Vietnamese still use Latin as the language and script of their own nation.
A Chinese character that has never been abolished
Although today's Vietnamese people still use Latin as a daily script, and Chinese characters were abolished in 1945 for more than seventy years, in the hearts of the Vietnamese people, they hope that the official government can restore the Vietnamese language that once belonged to them, and they also hope to learn Chinese characters again, after all, many of the Vietnamese people's stock books are written in the former Chinese characters, if they still use Latin as their own script in the future, then future generations of descendants will not be able to understand the books and works written by their predecessors.
But such an idea can not be realized in a short period of time, because the republic of Vietnam was not established for a long time, to change the script, and even the cultural foundation of the whole country, this is undoubtedly a very important project, not only the authorities and rulers to formulate a comprehensive countermeasure, but also to obtain the wide recognition and cooperation of the Vietnamese people, so now we can see that the Vietnamese people still use Latin, but there are also some areas where the former Vietnamese language and Chinese characters are used.
Interestingly, Vietnam's festival customs are also modeled after China, they also celebrate the Spring Festival and celebrate the New Year as the mainland, in addition, during the New Year, every household in Vietnam will also paste the Spring Festival, hang lanterns, etc., and since you want to paste the Spring Festival, it is natural to write some New Year's greetings or sentences with profound meaning, because of the abolition of Chinese characters, so they can only use the Latin alphabet to write, if you let the Chinese people look at the Vietnamese couplets will definitely think it is very strange, it is really rare to write couplets in letters.
But there is a word in this, they still use it has not changed, this word is the word "Fu", vietnamese people have studied Chinese culture, naturally also know the meaning and meaning of this word, so no matter how the dynasty changes, to what extent the culture has developed, this word has been passed down, I think it should be the people of the two countries have a common desire, they hope that they can have a better life in the future, which may be the reason why this word has not been abolished so far.
epilogue
I have to say that the influence and charm of Chinese culture is really difficult for any culture to match, even after thousands of years of development, Chinese civilization is still standing, has never declined, has never been abolished, and today China is also one of the few cultural powers in the world, its cultural soft power and cultural influence in many countries is also among the best, I hope that in the future, the Chinese people can carry forward the culture of their own nation, so that more people know and understand Chinese culture.
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